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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Ludwigslust (City of Ludwigslust) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on blue-tinted card stock and centres on a large coloured vignette of mounted dragoons in full uniform riding in formation before an archway, rendered in a painterly lithographic style. Flanking the central scene are four date medallions — 1819, 1841, 1864, and 1915 — each accompanied by symbolic military vignettes including helmets, a regimental cipher, and a starburst order. The denomination 'EINE MARK' appears in bold block lettering at lower left and lower right, and a captioned banner beneath the central scene identifies the regiment, flanked by Iron Cross devices. |
| Reverse lettering | 1819 1841 1864 1915 EINE MARK 1. Großh. Mecklb. Dragoner Regiment No 17 |
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Ludwigslust is a small Mecklenburg town built almost entirely to serve the ducal court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin — without the palace, it barely existed as an economic unit. That a municipality this size was issuing its own paper money in 1922 tells you everything about the collapse of central monetary authority during the hyperinflation spiral. German cities, towns, even individual businesses printed notgeld simply because Reichsbank notes were depreciating faster than they could circulate.
The DeNG reference places this within the sixth positional variant of the 0818.2 series, suggesting the town issued multiple notgeld runs — not unusual for 1922, when denominations were revised repeatedly to chase rising prices.